Selasa, 16 Juli 2013

World's Fastest Electric Racing Car

World's fastest
electric racing car can go over 185MPH and is set to compete at Le Mans

Nissan's
ZEOD RC is more than twice as fast as current electric road cars

Over
the next year the UK
car maker will trial new technologies to boost the cars performance

It will
then race at next year's Le Mans
24 Hours motorsport event

Nissan has unveiled the world's fastest electric
racing car that can reach speeds of more than 185mph - twice the speed of
current electric road cars.

The Zero Emission On Demand Racing Car - ZEOD RC
- is fitted with modified versions of the electric technology used in the UK car maker's
LEAF model.

The ZEOD RC will make its race debut at next
year's Le Mans 24 Hour event in France.

Nissan has unveiled the
world's fastest electric car - the Zero Emission On Demand Racing Car. ZEOD RC
for short, the car can reach speeds of up to 185mph and will make its race
debut at next year's Le Mans 24 hours event in France

The ZEOD RC will compete under
the Automobile Club de l'Ouest's 'Garage 56' entry at the 2014 Le Mans event - an
additional spot on the grid especially for vehicles that showcase innovative
technology

The car will compete under the Automobile Club de
l'Ouest's 'Garage 56' entry - an additional spot on the grid for vehicles that
showcase new and innovative technology.

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Nissan plans to test various types of engine and
electric technologies in the new car over the next year to increase its
performance for the race.

These trials will then be used to create
technology for future electric road cars.

Nissan said it will showcase these developments
as they happen on its YouTube channel and Nismo.TV.

The ZEOD RC design team was headed by Ben Bowlby
who was recently appointed as Nissan's Director of Motorsport Innovation.

The technology in Nissan's
ZEOD RC is a modified version of the electric engine used in its LEAF road car.
The LEAF reaches top speeds of around 93mph while the ZEOD RC can achieve
185mph

Nissan unveils 185mph electric
racing car

Bowley said: 'The Nissan ZEOD RC is a natural
progression that follows on from the development of the Nissan LEAF road car
and the LEAF RC race car prototype.

'The technologies developed through the program
will form part of future innovations for road cars.

'The program is designed to develop multiple
technologies to evaluate how they could be used for a future return of Nissan
at Le Mans. We
are investigating multiple options.

The ZEOD RC model unveiled
ahead of this weekend's Le Mans
race is a prototype. Nissan plans to test various types of engine and electric
technologies in the new car over the next year to increase its performance for
the race

An ZEOD RC driver can to
switch between electric and petrol-powered drive. Nissan's design team claim
that this a technology that could be added to road cars in the future in
addition to pure electric power

'A Zero Emission On Demand option - where the
driver can switch between electric and petrol-powered drive - is a future
direction for road cars, so that will be tested in addition to pure electric
power and other new technologies.'

While current battery technology doesn't provide
the energy storage capacity to race a solely electric Le Mans prototype, Bowlby believes the
development of the car will be an important step in the 'electrification' of
motorsport.

'A car like this provides an incredibly
challenging test bed for what could be highly-effective options for road cars.
Throughout the next year we will be testing multiple drive trains in an
extensive test program,' Bowlby said.

Nissan's cars currently don't
have the energy storage capacity to race a solely electric Le Mans prototype but its designer Ben

NISSAN'S ELECTRIC
TECHNOLOGY

The technology in Nissan's ZEOD RC car builds
upon its electric designs in its Leaf model.